On the Workbench [May/June] - Horus Heresy

 

While poking away, and mostly stalling on completing the Dark Angel's Spartan assault tank, I've been building a few things.

In May I assembled of a squad of the new plastic MkII Breachers.  A typically good kit as we've come to expect from the plastic heresy line.

In June, I picked up the Horus Heresy Legio Custodes Battle Group box and 3.0 codex. These purchases inspired me to break out some older rein models I had in inventory. Here we have Constantin Valdor in all his Forge World resin glory.

Next up I assembled and based a box of Aquilon terminators. I left the armored tops unglued for ease of painting later. Some poster tack is currently securing the parts against loss.

Then I turned to the one model in the battle force box that I was least interested in: the Calidus Annihilator Grav-tank. But during assembly, it really grew on me. It was fun to assemble and is a great looking model. I would never had gone for the resin Forge World version. At some point I'll do something interesting with the base to match the rest of the force.

Next I assembled the Contemptor-Galatus dreadnought.  This will compete with the Saturnine dreadnought for Dreadtober this year, no doubt.  I have always liked the look of this dread and I'm psyched to include it next to my existing resin Contemptor-Achillus.

 

Last up for the month was the Shield Captain from the box. Quite a fancy dude, he is. A joy to build and will be great fun to paint. I'll get on with assembling the remaining 12 models for the two Sodalities in the box.  I definitely got sucked in by the Horus Heresy specific sculpts.  I have been considering my 40K Custodes as double duty, but the differences between the 40k/30k lines and available models have made it worth collecting both for me. 

Super fun, detailed models that will provide a lot of painting enjoyment.  I expect to get started on a few of these once I complete the damn Spartan. :)  I really don't know what's got into me, but I have definitely been struggling to find motivation to sling paint this year.

That's it for now.

Cheers and Happy Gaming! 

On the Workbench [March] - Heresy Era Dark Angels

 

Greetings and welcome back. I continue to fall behind on blogging, but not the hobby.  Today I'm sharing a squad of MkII armored Assault Marines for my Dark Angels collection. This squad is part of the Dreadwing and so are armed with disintegrator pistols and other nasty means to purge the enemies of the Imperium from the galaxy.

 

The squad Sergeant carries a charnable sabre and plasma pistol. 

 

 

This is one of my favorite poses. Pure HtH and ready for business. 

 

We'll see how this fella paints up. The only power lance in the kit was held with the blade on the right in a position I couldn't get my head around.  So I cut the two ends of the lance off and switched them using pins and prayers.  It's...mostly straight now?  Anyway, the pose is improved and the weapon seems novel enough to have one in the army, for the rule of cool.

 

For similar reasons I had to include at least one two-handed chain axe.  It seemed fitting for a member of the Dreadwing.  This will be a Terran squad, and so they are less caught up in the Caliban knightly sword-master traditions. There are five chainswords and a standard chain axe in the squad as well. I'll include them below after the break for the curious.

 

 All-in-all this was a fun kit to build.  Lots of options, everything went together pretty well. I primed them in black and then into the case they went to wait for their turn in the queue. Joining them in the queue soon is an MkIII Breacher squad.

They need basing and priming, but assembly is complete.  I already have a squad of 15 Forge World resin Breachers; yet I found the allure of fresh plastic too much to pass up. I am more of a collector than a gamer at this point anyway. These are likely members of the Stormwing.  I'm looking forward to imagining what heraldry to use for the shields. I have loads of transfers, but some checkers would look nice too...

 Anyway, that's a choice for another day. Thanks for indulging me in my little show and tell here. I'm moving on to my next painting project: the plastic Spartan from the v2 Age of Darkness launch box. I found myself very close to clicking on a new super heavy and then decided I have plenty of armor in the queue already. And so inspiration blossomed. Check back next week to see how that project is progressing.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!!